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U.S.-Mexico Border
MAY 2007
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Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona
Photograph by Diane Cook and Len Jenshel

Barricades like those that bristled off Normandy beaches on D-Day now guard desert. They stop smugglers of drugs and migrants from driving across the border but let the endangered Sonoran pronghorn pass. Allusions to war are apt: In 2002, before the barriers were in place, drug cartel gunmen killed a U.S. park ranger here.

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